State secretary Heike Raab has been a member of the German social democratic party SPD since 1989 and held the position of general secretary in the SPD Rhineland-Palatinate from 2006 to 2011. In 2011, Raab was appointed state secretary to the Rhineland-Palatinate ministry of the interior, sports and infrastructure as well as IT officer for the state government. Since July 2015, Raab in her position as state secretary has been the state of Rhineland-Palatinate’s authorised representative for media and digital matters on the federal and European Level.